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Robots might be getting smarter but to truly support people in daily life, they also need to get more empathetic. That means recognising and responding to human emotions in real time. 

Most facial recognition models are trained once and then expected to work across every scenario. However, a model trained on one dataset often struggles when faced with new situations, and retraining from scratch is slow and inefficient. 

Dr Rahul Singh Maharjan and his team are tackling this challenge by developing a new approach: teaching AI to learn emotions incrementally. Instead of forgetting what it already knows, the system builds on past experiences whilst adapting to fresh emotional data. This makes it more resilient and better prepared for real-world human interaction. 

As Dr Maharjan explains: "For technology to truly integrate into our lives, it must understand our emotions. My goal is to help build AI that doesn’t just compute, but connects with us."